Benefits of Walking
Before we jump into the plan, here’s some information on the overall benefits of walking. (4)
- Maintains a healthy weight
- Prevents or manages various conditions, including heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes
- Strengthens your bones and muscles
- Improves your mood
- Improves your balance and coordination
Liz Wolfert, a Denver resident is a perfect example of someone who benefited greatly from incorporating an hour of walking a day and it improved her health tremendously. This article talks briefly about Liz’s story and it also outlines the importance of physical activity to avoid being metabolically inflexible.
It Takes a Minimum of 21 Days to Form a Habit
Whatever exercise habit you want to pursue and maintain for a long time, allow yourself a minimum of 21 days to adjust to it. According Dr. Maxwell Maltz, “…many other commonly observed phenomena tend to show that it requires a minimum of about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell.” (5)
Always keep in the mind that 21 days in the minimum number and it can certainly take longer than that for the habit to stick. Make sure you don’t let that discourage you. If anything, there’s motivation that can be found in that. “Embracing longer timelines can help us realize that habits are a process and not an event. In other words, it doesn’t matter if you mess up every now and then. Building better habits is not an all-or-nothing process.” (6)
Now without further ado, here’s a simple 21-Day walking plan to help with fat loss.
